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Trump Is Asking to Be Bailed Out Again

Posted by ChiGuy6124


https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/03/trump-creating-crisis/686539/

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H4NKSCORP10 Mar 25, 2026 +416
I honestly can't think of another public figure less suited for the office than this corrupt, narcissistic pedophile moron. Give me one redeemable quality about Trump other than having a finite lifespan and I'll delete this comment.
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minicpst Mar 25, 2026 +162
He has taught a LOT of people about the importance of elections. That's all I can think of. Even Hitler liked dogs.
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Starfox-sf Mar 25, 2026 +45
And he could paint.
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ChiefWiggum101 Mar 26, 2026 +1
I’d love to paint a house with Trump. There was a movie that talked about painting houses kinda recently. IYKYK?
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rockerscott Mar 26, 2026 +1
Not very subtle
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HandSack135 Mar 25, 2026 +7
Two coats.
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Bashkire Mar 26, 2026 +6
Two THIN coats!
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FinalEdit Mar 26, 2026 +1
Hitler's paintings were objectively shit. Absolutely no sense of depth or lighting. That one with the house and the janky staircase that goes over the windows is just totally wank.
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SAHDSeattle Mar 25, 2026 +35
His first term should’ve taught a lot of people the importance of elections. A Democrat will be elected in 2028 and before January even ends people will be mad everything isn’t instantly fixed and consider giving Republicans another chance to end the country. You have way more faith in the American electorate than I do.
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zoug Mar 26, 2026 +1
You mean 2028, when we get to talk about the national debt again and these gilded boondoggle republicans suddenly become fiscal conservatives again? Yeah, I’d like out of this storyline.
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SAHDSeattle Mar 26, 2026 +1
I’m very excited to hear about masses of illegal immigrant caravans. I’m equally excited to see Jill Stein poke her head out of her hole so we can see how many months of election season we will have.
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minicpst Mar 25, 2026 +6
It did teach a lot of people about it. Not enough, but a lot. My youngest was seven when he was elected the first time. "What did Trump do today?" became a daily dinnertime conversation. Their classmates have been very aware and politically active, which is unusual for middle schoolers, and that has continued into high school. I would imagine by now, a lot of people are at least aware, even if they won't admit it.
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SAHDSeattle Mar 26, 2026 +8
I’m just going by voter turnout in 2020 compared to 2024. A lot of people saw Trump on the ballot again and sat it out for one reason or another. We just had pretty important elections in our state (Washington) and only reached 45.7% participation. That’s with having one of the easiest ballot casting systems in the country. The truth is the vast majority of Americans are extremely comfortable or at least comfortable enough where they can “both sides are the same” or “it won’t change my life either way” our elections.
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rockerscott Mar 26, 2026 +1
I kept saying that during his first term just as a way to cope. Maybe Donald Trumps contribution to the United States will be to point out the holes and weaknesses so we can strengthen our democracy and begin to make real progress….nope.
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SwvellyBents Mar 25, 2026 +8
Elections and education! It was the dumbing down of America that got us here.
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trib76 Mar 26, 2026 +1
Social media has helped a lot too
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blacksheep998 Mar 26, 2026 +1
> He has taught a LOT of people about the importance of elections. We thought that after 2020. But people have very short memories.
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minicpst Mar 26, 2026 +1
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtXtZmbjG\_c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtXtZmbjG_c) We're learning again. The hard way.
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Rombledore Mar 26, 2026 +3
not enough people
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pnkwah Mar 26, 2026 +1
Can you say something was taught if nobody learned anything?
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Excellent-Estimate21 Mar 26, 2026 +1
Hitler also loved Germany in his crazy mind. Trump doesn't GAF about America.
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nousuon Mar 26, 2026 +1
I recently told someone that I don't trust anyone that doesn't like children or small animals. I wasn't talking about politics, but to your point...
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thalassicus Mar 26, 2026 +1
He also taught us that our three branches of government holding each other accountable and most of the laws to ensure that were more just Gentlemen's Agreements that don't mean shit when an entire party just looks the other way at blatant illegality including and especially overt attempts to overthrow election results.
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Hosni__Mubarak Mar 26, 2026 +1
Also Hitler at least did one really great thing. That last thing Hitler did.
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JerHat Mar 26, 2026 +1
Thought he taught people that after 2020. And here we are, again.
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airinato Mar 25, 2026 +1
The wrong people unfortunately
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rat_penis Mar 25, 2026 +23
Think of him as a pressure test. He's the water that's found all the cracks in our system to show us where we need to repair and shore up the foundations. He's given us a national case study on textbook narcissism that we can use to educate those poor people that suffer assholes like him in their personal lives as well as create awareness in how to deal with them. He's shown us how many of our friends and neighbors would love to pull us out of our homes and throw us in camps. "Every regulation is written in blood" - He's helping us write a lot of new rules.
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ma1bec Mar 26, 2026 +1
Except none of those cracks will be fixed and will be abused instead.
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ryan408 Mar 26, 2026 +1
Time will tell, my friend
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TooPrettyForBoymode Mar 25, 2026 +9
It’s not redeeming, but he has shed light on how hypocritical most of the Republican Party representatives are and some of the Democrats. He has exposed it like no other politician or investigative journalist could. The amount of times he has directly undercut leaders his own leaders and they still lineup right behind him.
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mycatzncharge Mar 25, 2026 +7
He unified us against him.
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sargsauce Mar 25, 2026 +10
So he's like a giant, telepathic space squid?
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ieatplaydough2 Mar 26, 2026 +2
I like the reference, but that united the whole earth, including all of America.
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SlowRunner2026 Mar 25, 2026 +10
A hairdo that continues to amuse?
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BigDaddySteve999 Mar 26, 2026 +3
>having a finite lifespan Gonna need to see evidence of that.
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__lord__business__ Mar 25, 2026 +4
He has normalized straight men wearing makeup?
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um_ok_try_again Mar 26, 2026 +1
He's normalising make-up on men?
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Nach0Maker Mar 26, 2026 +1
His best trait is that he is likely one of, if not the, best con men in the world. He literally took over the country as part of a grift and developed a cult based on it.
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Livueta_Zakalwe Mar 26, 2026 +1
He’s showed us every weak spot in our laws and institutions. Previously much of our system was upheld by norms and traditions. We need an update. A good first step: let’s get rid of the last norm standing, the refusal to prosecute a president.
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Ampallang80 Mar 26, 2026 +1
Those dogs that get elected mayor are more suited than he is
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B-Z_B-S Mar 25, 2026 +81
Trump has always had his messes cleaned up by the adults in his life. During this administration, he surrounded himself with yes men and got rid of the people who would have stopped his mistakes, and he doesn't have anyone to fix his mess for him this time. He tried to bully our allies into helping him with the war *he* started; that failed, and Trump's been flailing desperately because he doesn't know how to get out of this situation.
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patentattorney Mar 25, 2026 +32
That really isn’t the case. A lot of times he has just left the situation on fire. Trump acts like my 2 year old when he spills milk on the table. “Oh no” and then goes and makes a mess with his toys.
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BalanceJazzlike5116 Mar 25, 2026 +7
https://www.reddit.com/r/humor/s/E5GfUw2CM8
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ChiGuy6124 Mar 25, 2026 +67
*To say the president is an out of control child is to understate and simplify. He is a bull in a China shop that only cares about stuffing his pockets with more money, and getting his name on another building. And people are dying as a result; Real people both in America and without, decent innocent people, are dying, while this pos remains both oblivious and uncaring. The old saying "There is a place in hell" has never been more appropiate.* "The president’s eagerness to act keeps getting him into difficult spots—which he then demands that legislators and the public help him escape." "A [popular joke in the 1850s](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2026/03/23/mercy-orphan/) concerned a man who, upon being convicted for the murder of his parents, throws himself at the judge’s feet and begs for mercy on a poor orphan." "The tale came to mind recently as I read about a hearing challenging President Trump’s authority to build a new ballroom where the White House’s East Wing had stood until Trump abruptly demolished it last fall." "The president had been insisting for some time that any work would not “interfere with the current building,” then razed it so quickly that no one had any time to intervene legally." "In court this month, a Justice Department lawyer echoed the parricide orphan, pleading with a judge not to halt construction and arguing that it is necessary due to unspecified [security concerns](https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/19/politics/east-wing-secret-bunker-construction-details)—even if he agreed with a suit brought by preservationists. “It does not benefit the public,” DOJ’s [Yaakov Roth said](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/17/trump-ballroom-judge-hearing/), “to have this site dormant.” "Trump’s war—sorry, [“operation”](https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2026/03/02/trump-admin-tiptoes-around-the-word-war-00807301)—in Iran is a perfect example." " The president [didn’t ask Congress](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-unauthorized-war-iran/686239/) to declare war, and he did not receive, or request, an [authorization for use of military force](https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/section-8/clause-1/declarations-of-war-vs-authorizations-for-use-of-military-force-aumf). " "The administration briefed the “Gang of Eight” (the leaders of the House, Senate, and each body’s intelligence committees from both parties) just before the strikes but, according to *The New York Times*, [misled them about the scope](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/us/politics/trump-war-iran-israel.html) of the attack." " Trump did not work to build support for war with Iran among the American people, and he did not attempt to assemble a coalition of allies other than Israel to take part." "Now that the operation has hit difficulty, though, Trump wants exactly the same people he ignored—Congress, the American people, and allies—to bail him out. The administration has asked for an astonishing $200 billion to fund a war that the president also sporadically claims is over, giving legislators an unappetizing choice between funding a quagmire or else walking away and leaving a mess behind." "Administration officials have also called on citizens to make sacrifices to handle higher gas and energy prices in the service of a war they don’t support, whose aims the president can’t articulate." "And Trump has alternatingly pleaded with and raged at allies who, having avoided a war they didn’t want—and having endured years of scorn from Trump—are now unwilling to put their own troops in danger to reopen the Strait of Hormuz." "Following protocol might have deprived Trump of the splashiness of these sudden actions, or even prevented him from doing these things—but it might also have helped him avoid the missteps that are plaguing him." "A lawyer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which is challenging the ballroom, made the same point more pithily during the hearing last week. Thaddeus Heuer noted that the administration could have consulted with relevant authorities before demolition but had declined." “They have forgotten the proverbial first law of holes,” [he said](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/us/politics/trump-ballroom-kennedy-center-lawsuits.html). “When you find yourself in one, stop digging.”
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Sufficient_Candy1642 Mar 25, 2026 +18
F*** Orange Felon.
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Nerd-19958 Mar 25, 2026 +16
Orange Shitler should NOT be bailed out again. All he will do is (as always) blame the opposition for any remaining problems with his disastrous debacle. Democrats should keep hands off, NOT vote to appropriate any funds for an unconstitutional and illegal war, and let Shitler (in the famous words of Nixon's advisor John Ehrlichman), "twist slowly, slowly in the wind."
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NetSage Mar 26, 2026 +1
I just want to remind everyone the Epstein Files still haven't been fully released!
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LetsGoBubba6141 Mar 26, 2026 +1
I want to remind everyone, it isn't the emails or documents, It is the 40 terabytes worth of black mail video.
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AcanthisittaNo6653 Mar 25, 2026 +8
> “It does not benefit the public,” DOJ’s [Yaakov Roth said](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/17/trump-ballroom-judge-hearing/), “to have this site dormant.” They should turn it into a military cemetery for soldiers who fall in battle because of trump's ineptitude.
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Ya_Got_GOT Mar 25, 2026 +8
Bankruptcy #7, his magnum opus of sucking at everything 
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UltravioletAfterglow Mar 26, 2026 +1
Spoiled brats like Trump are carried through life. It’s how they become entitled, selfish, impulsive and stupid.
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XarmtheinsaneX Mar 26, 2026 +4
Trump is treating the world like a c**** motel room that he's going to trash before he checks out.
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rat_penis Mar 25, 2026 +2
pathetic dotard
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pogishushu Mar 25, 2026 +2
Is our king of clowns insane or even stupid enough to order a small-scale nuclear attack, or what is described as 'Escalate to De-escalate' theory? He cannot use these unless there is someone else that must give the same codes right?
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Autodidact2 Mar 25, 2026 +2
Since he was a child.
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EmployeeNo3499 Mar 26, 2026 +1
I like the closing quote: “They have forgotten the proverbial first law of holes,” [he said](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/us/politics/trump-ballroom-kennedy-center-lawsuits.html). “When you find yourself in one, stop digging.”
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smitherenesar Mar 26, 2026 +1
paywall?
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Alwaystired254 Mar 25, 2026 -1
Looks like Trump will get another bailout! Congrats
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Bakedads Mar 25, 2026 -26
Don't worry. I'm sure the democrats will get right on that. 
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ChiGuy6124 Mar 25, 2026 +21
Come on dude, the democrats? We are way past "the democrats". This is all MAGA all day.
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ParabolicHyperbole Mar 25, 2026 +6
He’s very obviously incapable of thinking for himself, he’s just spewing what his Fox overlords tell him to think
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